Nigel Goldenfeld

Scientific careerFieldsPhysics
Evolutionary Biology^[3]InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThesisThe statistical mechanics of polymer molecules in the solid state. (1982)Doctoral advisorSam Edwards Websiteguava.physics.ucsd.edu/~nigel

Nigel David Goldenfeld FRS (born May 1, 1957) is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego.^[3] Preivously he worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute for Universal Biology,^[4] and the leader of the Biocomplexity group at Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.^{[citation needed]}

Education

Goldenfeld was educated at the University of Cambridge.^[when?]

Career and research

Goldenfeld is a co-founder of Numerix and the author of the 1993 textbook "Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group,"^[5] a widely used graduate textbook in statistical physics.

He is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of American Physical Society since 1995^[6] and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) since 2024.^[7]

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